Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
BUFFALO BILLI began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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